In Enemy init method, how does it get values for x and y?

Hello Steve,

As you will see in the next set of videos, the x and y letters in the init method, are just the names associated with the Enemy class when you call it and initialize it within your code. In others words they are just an easy way to let you know what kind of values the class is expecting.

In the video, Passan uses x and y to initialize the Enemy class, because when you create an enemy it will ask for it's position and a XY coordinate is widely known.

Finally, the values for X and Y are going to be given every time you call the Enemy class or Tower class to create a new enemy or tower, that's where the values will come from.

Hey Jennifer Nordell

do you have any explanation for this as Im still not understanding it fully. I get the original way of creating the init method but like Steve Graff said I don't understand where the x and y coordinates are coming from exactly, the only explanation I can think of is the Point Struct created earlier, but again the properties within that struct are supposed to be limited to that struct so I'm confused.

Thank you for your patience Alia

Hi everyone! This is sort of an old thread, but since I was specifically tagged I will try to give an explanation. I actually found Jose Patarroyo 's answer quite good.

Right now, those x and y values don't exist really. That's because we have yet to create an instance of Enemy. However, upon creation of the Enemy we will pass in integers which the init method will use to create a new Point or position. When that happens the integers will be assigned to the values x and y inside the init method which will result in creating the position for that enemy. The position of is of type Point which we defined in a struct.

So what we're really saying is this: when I create an Enemy I'm going to send in two numbers. Use those two numbers for the coordinates and assign them to the values x and y respectively.

Hope this helps!